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NEWLY NOMINATED MERCURY MUSIC PRIZE CONTENDER JAMIE T TO RELEASE DEBUT ALBUM PANIC PREVENTION IN CANADA ON AUGUST 28, 2007 JAMIE T WILL PLAY IN MONTREAL AND TORONTO THIS SEPTEMBER
Don't be fooled by his MC like moniker. Jamie T is a tall, skinny lad from the south-west London suburb of Wimbledon, influenced as much by The Clash, Tom Waits, Rancid and The Specials as the drum’n’bass and garage that surrounded him while growing up.
Aged just 20, Jamie’s debut album, Panic Prevention – August 28, 2007 release date in Canada is a mad scramble of sonic diary entries about his recent experiences, and those of his mates. A raw and scruffy hybrid of production underpinning torrid but touching stories of London living. Where girls find love behind the bike-sheds, where New Years Eve is predictably always shit, and drunk boys brawl on the top deck of the nightbus.
So entitled, Panic Prevention, after the series of mixtapes and club nights he has put on – it’s a record which depicts a blurry, boozy, chaotic world that’s instantly recognizable as the same one reported about in concerned TV news features from Britain’s teen-alcoholic-strewn small towns. And quite unapologetically, the young Mr. T is much closer to the reportees than the reporters.
‘Panic Prevention’ was largely written and recorded in Jamie’s bedroom. It features fourteen tracks, including his recent UK hit single ‘If You Got The Money’ which reached no.13 in the charts. It also includes ‘Rawhide’, the much-talked-of duet with Lily Allen and a UK audience favourite, the single, ‘Sheila’
‘‘Sheila’ is one of the first tunes Jamie ever wrote. Full of typically Jamie T pithy one-liners and a massively upbeat sing-a-long chorus - “Sheila goes out with her mate Stella, which she pours all over her fella” - it’s actually a bleak tale of drunken misadventure ending up in tragedy as the “Paramedic announced death at 10.30.”
Earlier this week, Jamie T was name checked and short-listed as one of this year’s contending nominees for the prestigious UK Mercury Music Prize.
His recent UK tour saw Jamie, the special guest of The Good, The Bad And The Queen at the Electric Proms.
Jamie T will play highly anticipated Canadian dates this September.
8 September - Montreal, QUE - Osheaga Festival
9 September - Toronto, ONT - V Festival
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